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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.5279S, 158.9657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.9657 East, latitude 52.5279 North, depth = 67.462 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:28:21 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.462 km (42 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/25 / 2025-08-03 03:28:21 / August 3, 2025 @ 3:28 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qr1u. Unique identifier: us7000qr1u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk. Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.9657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.462 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-03 03:28:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-27 21:24:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qr1u Id of event.
Event Code 7000qr1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qr1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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